Smiling patients and “Stunning” survival rates with heart transplantation !
Heart transplantation as a treatment modality was conceptualized by Christian Barnard in 1967 . Still considered as an “Act of God” this surgery is regularly performed worldwide by dedicated transplant team consisting of cardiac surgeon , physician , Anesthetist , pathologist and others .Unlike other organs , heart transplant cannot have a “live donor” .Though started half a century ago, the real pace has picked up only in last 2 decades .Currently it is “globally accepted standard” intervention in terminal cardiac failure (Including pediatric heart conditions)
How are the survival rates ?
Now, many centers are able to reach the bench mark Stanford- statistical rates with a consistent five year survival rate crossing 75% .
The median survival rates is 10.5 years
One of the estimate indicate , If they cross first year, median survival reach 13.5 years
There has been many living survivors who have crossed 30 years.
Looking at these numbers , there is dramatic impact in terms of global disease burden and the life gained.Statistically speaking successful treatment by heart transplant is equivalent to overwhelming many cancers in a human body !
Can these results reproducible in all centers ?
These excellent outcome is the reward to highly dedicated teams with pioneering work cu...
Source: Dr.S.Venkatesan MD - Category: Cardiology Authors: dr s venkatesan Tags: Heart transplantation longest survivor with heart transplant survival with heart transplantation Source Type: blogs
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